Thursday 1 July 2010

Revelation

Two interlocking themes emerge from these musings. The first is the very heart of nonduality: the revelation of no separation. The second is a consideration of that which is beyond description.

Nonduality could be said to be about the dissolving of a significant misconception to reveal a radical but very ordinary truth; there is no separation!

Everything is the emergent of a 'singular' whole. There are distinctions but no separation. If I really look to see what is going on right now, all that can be found is seamless reality - no separate pockets of self origination, just the emergence of a seamless THIS.

Another way of putting this is that there is no inherent-ness. Nothing is isolated, independent, self sustaining and permanent. Each seeming thing is dependently co-emerging with other seeming things like moving ripples on a lake.

This lack of separation doesn't just apply to objects and forms, but to ideas and feelings and perceptions. It's all the 'doing' of an undefined Reality.

This radical application of 'no inherent-ness' leads to a consideration of that which is beyond description:

What can be said about this 'undefined Reality'? Not a lot really. Since anything posited about Reality is 'downstream' of it, there can be no such thing as a final view. The best we might say is that Reality IS. From here our identity as the body-mind can be seen as yet another limited idea that has no inherent foundation.... Undefined, we are free to just be.